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Publications of Robert R. Korstad    :chronological  combined  bibtex listing:

Books

  1. R.R. Korstad and James L. Leloudis, To Right These Wrongs: The North Carolina Fund and the Battle to End Poverty and Inequality in 1960s America (2010) [available here]
  2. Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South (2003), The University of North Carolina Press [available here]
  3. Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Talk About Life in the Segregated South, edited by William Chafe, Raymond Gavins, and Robert Korstad (2001), New York, The New Press [html]
  4. R.R. Korstad, Dreaming of a Time: The School of Public Health, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1940-1990 (1990), Chapel Hill: The School of Public Health
  5. with Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, James Leloudis, Mary Murphy, LuAnn Jones, Christopher B. Daly, Like A Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World (1987), Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press (W. W. Norton paperback, 1989; anniversary edition with new afterword by the authors and preface by Michael Frisch (UNC Press, 2000).) [available here]

Papers Published

  1. R.R. Korstad, Civil Rights Unionism and the Black Freedom Struggle, American Communist History, vol. 8 no. 2 (December, 2008), pp. 255-58, ISSN 1474-33892
  2. R.R. Korstad, “Could History Repeat Itself? The Prospects for a Second Reconstruction in Post-World War II South Carolina,, in Toward the Meeting of the Waters: Currents in the Civil Rights Movement of South Carolina during the Twentieth Century (2008), University of South Carolina Press, ISBN 978-1-57003-755-9
  3. R.R. Korstad, Child Labor, Tar Heel Junior Historian, vol. 39 (Fall, 1999), pp. 28-30
  4. with James Leloudis, Citizen Soldiers: The North Carolina Volunteers and the War on Poverty, Law and Contemporary Problems, vol. 62 (Autumn 1999), pp. 177-97 (Reprinted in The New Deal and Beyond (University of Georgia Press, 2003.)
  5. with Larry J. Griffin, Historical Inference and Event-Structure Analysis, International Review of Social History, vol. 43 (1998), pp. 145-65
  6. with Larry J. Griffin, Class as Race and Gender: Making and Breaking a Labor Union in the Jim Crow South, Social Science History, vol. 19 (Winter, 1995), pp. 425-54
  7. R.R. Korstad, The Possibilities for Racial Egalitarianism: Context Matters, International Labor and Working-Class History, vol. 44 (Fall, 1993), pp. 41-44
  8. R.R. Korstad, Documentary Projects for Refugee and Displaced Children in Southern Africa, Journal of Social Work in Africa, vol. 8 (1993), pp. 61-72
  9. R.R. Korstad, Louise 'Mama' Harris, in Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia, edited by Darlene Clark Hine, Elsa Barkley Brown, and Roselyn Terborg-Penn (1993), pp. 538, New York: Garland Publishing
  10. R.R. Korstad, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company Strike of 1947, in Encyclopedia of Labor Conflict, edited by Ronald Filipelli (1990), pp. 431-3, New York: Garland Publishing
  11. R.R. Korstad, Fighting for Our Lives: The School of Public Health Marks 50 Years of Change and Challenge, Carolina Alumni Review, vol. 78 (Fall, 1989), pp. 50-57
  12. R.R. Korstad, Food, Tobacco, Agricultural, and Allied Workers, in Encyclopedia of the American Left, edited by Mary Jo Buhle, Paul Buhle, and Dan Georgakas (1989), pp. 234-35, New York: Garland Publishing
  13. with Nelson Lichtenstein, Opportunities Found and Lost: Labor, Radicals, and the Early Civil Rights Movement, Journal of American History, vol. 75 (December, 1988), pp. 786-811 (Reprinted in Major Problems in the History of American Workers, eds. Eileen Boris and Nelson Lichtenstein (Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath, 1991); Civil Rights Since 1787: A Reader on the Black Struggle, eds. Jonathan Birnbaum and Clarence Taylor (New York: New York University Press, 2000); U. S. Labor in the Twentieth Century: Studies in Working-Class Struggles and Insurgencies, eds. John Hinshaw and Paul Le Blanc (New York: Humanity Books, 2000).)
  14. with Jacquelyn Dowd Hall and James Leloudis, Cotton Mill People: Work, Community and Protest in the Textile South, 1880-1940, American Historical Review, vol. 91 (April, 1986), pp. 245-286 (Reprinted in Major Problems in the History of the American South, eds. Paul D. Escott and David Goldfield (Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath, 1990); Major Problems in the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era, ed. Leon Fink (Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath, 1992); Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in American History, Vol. II., eds. Larry Madaras and James M. SoRelle (New York, McGraw-Hill/Duskin, 2001).)
  15. R.R. Korstad, Those Who Were Not Afraid, in Working Lives, edited by Marc S. Miller (1980), pp. 184-199, New York: Pantheon

Book Reviews

  1. Timothy J. Minchin, The Color of Work: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Southern Paper Industry, 1945-1980, Journal of Southern History, vol. 69 (February, 2003), pp. 226-7
  2. Jane Webb Smith, Smoke Signals: Cigarettes, Advertising, and the American Way of Life, Journal of American History, vol. 78 (December, 1991), pp. 1018-23
  3. Victoria A. Harden, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever: History of a Twentieth-Century Disease, Science, vol. 251 (March 22, 1991), pp. 1507-1508
  4. Nannie M. Tilley, The R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Technology and Culture, vol. 27 (July, 1986), pp. 639-40

Book Chapter

  1. R.R. Korstad, Louise 'Mama' Harris, in Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia, edited by Darlene Clark Hine, Elsa Barkley Brown, and Roselyn Terborg-Penn (1993), pp. 538, New York: Garland Publishing
  2. R.R. Korstad, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company Strike or 1947, in Encyclopedia of Labor Conflict, edited by Ronald Filpelli (1990), pp. 431-3, New York: Garland Publishing
  3. R.R. Korstad, Food, Tobacco, Agricultural, and Allied Workers, in Encyclopedia of the American Left, edited by Mary Jo Buhle, Paul Buhle, and Dan Gerogakas (1989), pp. 234-35, New York: Garland Publishing

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